:''This article is about the band. For the general concept it was named after, see information society.'' Information Society (aka InSoc) was a United States band (music) from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of Kurt Harland (aka Kurt Valaquen), Paul Robb, James Cassidy, and Amanda Kramer. Their breakout hit was 1988 in music's "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)", a dance music hit which included a sample of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) from Star Trek, saying "pure energy," and opened with a sample of Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), also from Star Trek, saying, "It's worked so far, but we're not out yet!" The self-titled debut album ''Information Society (album)'' (1988 in music) also had another hit, "Walking Away", and a cover from ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me". The disc was one of the few to use CD-G, which included digital graphics on the compact disc version in addition to the music. The second release, ''Hack (album)'', wasn't as powerful, but had a small hit with "Think". Kurt was also the owner of the heavily-modified art car featured on the cover of ''Hack'', eventually sold to a friend at Burning Man in the mid 1990s. The car sported a functioning ranging laser, among other unusual features. The third release, ''Peace & Love, Inc.'', proved to be more powerful, although their spotlight had vanished. Their first single "Peace & Love Inc." reached #1 on the Billboard (magazine) Dance Chart. The fourth album, ''Don't Be Afraid'', done by Kurt Harland alone, is more industrial (music)-driven. One notable instance of such play with computer-related materials included both the complete music video collection to date contained on a second CD provided with ''Don't Be Afraid'' and a carefully-orchestrated digital scavenger hunt culminating in the discovery of a bonus track called "White Roses". The scavenger hunt began with decoding a modem's audio signal recorded at the end of the first CD of the ''Don't Be Afraid'' album, which pointed the way to a website. There is also a cover included of Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric". Paul Robb's influences in earlier albums ranged more to the prototypal hip-hop and house music, and he was integral to the early operations of Tommy Boy Records. Amanda Kramer has also been a member of the Golden Palominos and 10,000 Maniacs. Amanda left the group before the second album ''Hack'' (1990 in music), Paul and James followed after ''Peace & Love, Inc.'' (1992 in music), and Kurt was the only remaining member left to record ''Don't Be Afraid'' in 1997 in music, which was produced in part out of his car. During the course of the four albums and about a dozen remix single (music) from them, Information Society's sound went from more electronic music pop music to a darker industrial (music) type, though they will always be remembered for their first hit song and the cardboard guitars they wielded in its music video. In 2001 in music, ''Greatest Hits: Strange Haircuts / Cardboard Guitars / and Computer Samples'' was released including all the hits from 1988 to 1992. Information Society has no plans to work on new material. ==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Information Society (album)'' (1988 in music) *''Hack (album)'' (1990 in music) *''Peace & Love, Inc.'' (1992 in music) *''Don't Be Afraid'' (1997 in music) *''InSoc Recombinant'' (1999 in music remixes) *''Boot Disk 2.0'' *''The Best of Information Society'' *''Greatest Hits: Strange Haircuts / Cardboard Guitars / and Computer Samples'' (2001 in music) ===Singles=== *''What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)'' (1988 original, 2001 in music remixes) *''Walking Away'' (198x) *''Think (single)'' (19xx) *''Running (single)'' (19xx original, 2001 remixes) *''Peace & Love, Inc. (single)'' (1992 in music) *''Going, Going, Gone'' (199x) *''How Long'' (199x) *''Lay All Your Love On Me'' (199x) *''Are Friends Electric?'' ==External link== * [http://www.insoc.org Information Society (InSoc) official site] __NOTOC__ American musical groups
An information society is one which the creation, distribution and manipulation of information is becoming a significant economic and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of knowledge. The information society is a new kind of society. Specific to this kind of society is the central position information technology has for production and Economics. Information society is seen as successor to industrial society. Closely related concepts are post-industrial society (Daniel Bell), post-fordism, postmodernity society, knowledge society, Telematic Society, Information Revolution, and informational society (Manuel Castells). One of the first people to develop the concept of the information society was the economist Fritz Machlup. In 1933 Machlup began studying the effect of patents on research. His work culuminated in the breakthrough study "The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States" in 1962. This book was [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=227258 widely regarded] and was eventually translated into Russian language and Japanese language. The Japanese have also studied the information society ''jōhō shakai'' (情報社会, Umesao), which means the highest stage of societal evolution seen in analogy to biological evolution. This concept was discussed already in the 1950s and 1960s. [http://infosoc2.informatik.uni-bremen.de/lehre/ig/WS99-00/studienbrief/abschnitt1_3.html] There is currently no universally accepted concept of what exactly can be termed information society and what shall rather not so be termed. Most theoreticans agree that we see a transformation which started somewhere between the 1970s and today and is changing the way societies work fundamentally. Information technology is not only internet, and there are discussions how big the influence of specific media or specific modes of production really is. Some people, such as Antonio Negri and Newt Gingrich, characterise the information society as one in which people do immaterial labour. By this, they appear to refer to the production of knowledge or cultural artifacts. One problem with this model is that it ignores the material and essentially industrial basis of the society. However it does point to a problem for workers, namely how many creative people does this society need to function? For example, it may be that you only need a few star performers, rather than a plethora of non-celebrities, as the work of those performers can be easily distributed, forcing all secondary players to the bottom of the market. It ''is'' now common for publishers to promote only their best selling authors and to try and avoid the rest- even if they still sell steadily. Films are becoming more and more judged, in terms of distribution, by their first weekends performance, in many cases cutting out opportunity for word of mouth development. Another problem with the idea of the information society is that there is no easily agreed upon definition of the term, which can not only include art, texts, blueprints and scientific theories, but also lies, football results, trivia, random letters, mistakes and so on. Information is not necessarily productive or useful. It can even be harmful. Considering that metaphors and technologies of information move forward in a reciprocal relationship, we can describe some societies (especially the Japanese society) as an information society because we think of it as such (James Boyle, 1996, 6). One of the central paradoxes of the information society is that it makes information easily reproducible, yet corporations need to confine it, or demarcate it in some way, otherwise they cannot sell it and make a profit. This is also one of the central political struggles, will open source beat copy restriction, will all of the natural world be gradually copyrighted so that you cannot use biological functions without paying a licence fee. In many parts of the world it is hard for farmers to grow crops without paying agricultural companies for seeds. They cannot use saved seeds. One issue which makes information much more important than before is the integration of photography, film, etc. with the computer; which moves gradually from being a universal machine to being a universal media-machine. Another important issue is the close relation between information technology, modes of production and globalization. Caveat: Information society is often used by politicians meaning something like "we all do internet now"; the sociological term information society (or informational society) has some deeper implications about change of societal structure. See also: World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) ---- ''The Information Society'' is also the title of an sociological journal, founded 1981, which defines itself as a "critical forum for leading edge analysis of the impacts, policies, system concepts, and methodologies related to information technologies and changes in society and culture" (homepage). * [http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/ The Information Society (journal)] ----- Information Society was also a musical group, see Information Society. == See also == *[http://coanews.org Currents of Awareness] * [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=227258 The origin and development of a concept: the information society.] * [http://www.global-info-society.org/ Global Information Society Project] at the [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/gisp/ World Policy Institute] Digital Revolution Human societies
== Origin of the concept of the information society == The paper [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=227258 The origin and development of a concept: the information society] studies in depth the origion of the concept of information society. She gives credit to Fritz Machlup who started his work in 1933. If you can find (working) links that attribute the concept to someone else, please put them in here. --User:ShaunMacPherson 21:10, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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:''This article is about the band. For the general concept it was named after, see information society.'' Information Society (aka InSoc) was a United States band (music) from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of Kurt Harland (aka Kurt Valaquen), Paul Robb, James Cassidy, and Amanda Kramer. Their breakout hit was 1988 in music's "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)", a dance music hit which included a sample of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) from Star Trek, saying "pure energy," and opened with a sample of Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), also from Star Trek, saying, "It's worked so far, but we're not out yet!" The self-titled debut album ''Information Society (album)'' (1988 in music) also had another hit, "Walking Away", and a cover from ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me". The disc was one of the few to use CD-G, which included digital graphics on the compact disc version in addition to the music. The second release, ''Hack (album)'', wasn't as powerful, but had a small hit with "Think". Kurt was also the owner of the heavily-modified art car featured on the cover of ''Hack'', eventually sold to a friend at Burning Man in the mid 1990s. The car sported a functioning ranging laser, among other unusual features. The third release, ''Peace & Love, Inc.'', proved to be more powerful, although their spotlight had vanished. Their first single "Peace & Love Inc." reached #1 on the Billboard (magazine) Dance Chart. The fourth album, ''Don't Be Afraid'', done by Kurt Harland alone, is more industrial (music)-driven. One notable instance of such play with computer-related materials included both the complete music video collection to date contained on a second CD provided with ''Don't Be Afraid'' and a carefully-orchestrated digital scavenger hunt culminating in the discovery of a bonus track called "White Roses". The scavenger hunt began with decoding a modem's audio signal recorded at the end of the first CD of the ''Don't Be Afraid'' album, which pointed the way to a website. There is also a cover included of Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric". Paul Robb's influences in earlier albums ranged more to the prototypal hip-hop and house music, and he was integral to the early operations of Tommy Boy Records. Amanda Kramer has also been a member of the Golden Palominos and 10,000 Maniacs. Amanda left the group before the second album ''Hack'' (1990 in music), Paul and James followed after ''Peace & Love, Inc.'' (1992 in music), and Kurt was the only remaining member left to record ''Don't Be Afraid'' in 1997 in music, which was produced in part out of his car. During the course of the four albums and about a dozen remix single (music) from them, Information Society's sound went from more electronic music pop music to a darker industrial (music) type, though they will always be remembered for their first hit song and the cardboard guitars they wielded in its music video. In 2001 in music, ''Greatest Hits: Strange Haircuts / Cardboard Guitars / and Computer Samples'' was released including all the hits from 1988 to 1992. Information Society has no plans to work on new material. ==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Information Society (album)'' (1988 in music) *''Hack (album)'' (1990 in music) *''Peace & Love, Inc.'' (1992 in music) *''Don't Be Afraid'' (1997 in music) *''InSoc Recombinant'' (1999 in music remixes) *''Boot Disk 2.0'' *''The Best of Information Society'' *''Greatest Hits: Strange Haircuts / Cardboard Guitars / and Computer Samples'' (2001 in music) ===Singles=== *''What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)'' (1988 original, 2001 in music remixes) *''Walking Away'' (198x) *''Think (single)'' (19xx) *''Running (single)'' (19xx original, 2001 remixes) *''Peace & Love, Inc. (single)'' (1992 in music) *''Going, Going, Gone'' (199x) *''How Long'' (199x) *''Lay All Your Love On Me'' (199x) *''Are Friends Electric?'' ==External link== * [http://www.insoc.org Information Society (InSoc) official site] __NOTOC__ American musical groups
Information society
An information society is one which the creation, distribution and manipulation of information is becoming a significant economic and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of knowledge. The information society is a new kind of society. Specific to this kind of society is the central position information technology has for production and Economics. Information society is seen as successor to industrial society. Closely related concepts are post-industrial society (Daniel Bell), post-fordism, postmodernity society, knowledge society, Telematic Society, Information Revolution, and informational society (Manuel Castells). One of the first people to develop the concept of the information society was the economist Fritz Machlup. In 1933 Machlup began studying the effect of patents on research. His work culuminated in the breakthrough study "The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States" in 1962. This book was [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=227258 widely regarded] and was eventually translated into Russian language and Japanese language. The Japanese have also studied the information society ''jōhō shakai'' (情報社会, Umesao), which means the highest stage of societal evolution seen in analogy to biological evolution. This concept was discussed already in the 1950s and 1960s. [http://infosoc2.informatik.uni-bremen.de/lehre/ig/WS99-00/studienbrief/abschnitt1_3.html] There is currently no universally accepted concept of what exactly can be termed information society and what shall rather not so be termed. Most theoreticans agree that we see a transformation which started somewhere between the 1970s and today and is changing the way societies work fundamentally. Information technology is not only internet, and there are discussions how big the influence of specific media or specific modes of production really is. Some people, such as Antonio Negri and Newt Gingrich, characterise the information society as one in which people do immaterial labour. By this, they appear to refer to the production of knowledge or cultural artifacts. One problem with this model is that it ignores the material and essentially industrial basis of the society. However it does point to a problem for workers, namely how many creative people does this society need to function? For example, it may be that you only need a few star performers, rather than a plethora of non-celebrities, as the work of those performers can be easily distributed, forcing all secondary players to the bottom of the market. It ''is'' now common for publishers to promote only their best selling authors and to try and avoid the rest- even if they still sell steadily. Films are becoming more and more judged, in terms of distribution, by their first weekends performance, in many cases cutting out opportunity for word of mouth development. Another problem with the idea of the information society is that there is no easily agreed upon definition of the term, which can not only include art, texts, blueprints and scientific theories, but also lies, football results, trivia, random letters, mistakes and so on. Information is not necessarily productive or useful. It can even be harmful. Considering that metaphors and technologies of information move forward in a reciprocal relationship, we can describe some societies (especially the Japanese society) as an information society because we think of it as such (James Boyle, 1996, 6). One of the central paradoxes of the information society is that it makes information easily reproducible, yet corporations need to confine it, or demarcate it in some way, otherwise they cannot sell it and make a profit. This is also one of the central political struggles, will open source beat copy restriction, will all of the natural world be gradually copyrighted so that you cannot use biological functions without paying a licence fee. In many parts of the world it is hard for farmers to grow crops without paying agricultural companies for seeds. They cannot use saved seeds. One issue which makes information much more important than before is the integration of photography, film, etc. with the computer; which moves gradually from being a universal machine to being a universal media-machine. Another important issue is the close relation between information technology, modes of production and globalization. Caveat: Information society is often used by politicians meaning something like "we all do internet now"; the sociological term information society (or informational society) has some deeper implications about change of societal structure. See also: World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) ---- ''The Information Society'' is also the title of an sociological journal, founded 1981, which defines itself as a "critical forum for leading edge analysis of the impacts, policies, system concepts, and methodologies related to information technologies and changes in society and culture" (homepage). * [http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/ The Information Society (journal)] ----- Information Society was also a musical group, see Information Society. == See also == *[http://coanews.org Currents of Awareness] * [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=227258 The origin and development of a concept: the information society.] * [http://www.global-info-society.org/ Global Information Society Project] at the [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/gisp/ World Policy Institute] Digital Revolution Human societies
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== Origin of the concept of the information society == The paper [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=227258 The origin and development of a concept: the information society] studies in depth the origion of the concept of information society. She gives credit to Fritz Machlup who started his work in 1933. If you can find (working) links that attribute the concept to someone else, please put them in here. --User:ShaunMacPherson 21:10, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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